NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

RAISE-4 & Others

Launch Time
NET December, 2025

Rocket

Epsilon S
JAXA
Status: Planned
Liftoff Thrust: 1,612 kN
Payload to LEO: 1,400 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 27.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 2.5 m
Fairing Height: 9.19 m

Mission Details

RAISE-4

RAISE-4 (RApid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite-4) is a satellite for on-orbit demonstrations of 15 demonstration components and equipment selected by public solicitation. The satellite will be operated in response to requests from the demonstration theme proposers, and will provide experimental data of the demonstration devices and environmental data during the experiments.

10 of the demonstrations are re-flight of those planned for RAISE-3, which failed to reach orbit in October 2022.

Payloads: 1
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

Mu Pad, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan